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Yep, not the first time this season JWP has put our players under pressure with a stupid 'safe' pass backwards when he had an opportunity to play forwards.

You know they lost against Charlton last week, don't you?

De Zerbi took over a team that was flying, 4th in the league, and didn't win for something like 6 matches.

They've still only got something like 23 players for their 25 man squad even after all these signings.

And Tete last January, that was meant to be a done deal for this summer and then it went quiet. If it doesn't happen today it won't happen at all.

Yeah I'm surprised they haven't got Unity involved in particular

Was Wright's argument not more around whether football is offered to girls in school? Most schools don't have girls football in PE, partly because the female games teachers don't have a football background.

They've announced today that all of the league fixtures will be at at St Marys (I think with the caveat that if St Mary's is double booked they might play at Totton).

Charlotte played Chelsea and drew 1-1

They used to do that, but it caused issues when sponsors/kit manufacturers changed. You could put a new sponsor on an old shirt, but the sponsors don't like that.

They announced at least one of them when they did the retained list. McCarthy I think. Presumably Stephens already had a contract that went past this summer.

Remember this is voted for by their fellow professionals though. That includes people down in league 2 who might not even watch much premier league football. Plus if they support a team, it's far more likely to be Liverpool than City so there may be some bias there. To add to that, they vote quite early in the season (so before Salah's form dropped off). Basically it's just a team of famous players that people have heard of.

Villarreal at home on 30/07

Crystal Palace have announced their new sponsor today, moving away from gambling to Cinch. Car sales companies are taking over the sponsorship world. Won't be long until be change sponsor I wouldn't have thought. Gambling/ crypto is on the way out.

Calvin Bassey looks a useful player. Him and Salisu might make a good partnership.

To be fair Allison nearly did that last night, and he's not a bad player

Don't know, just feels odd. The striker isn't allowed a second touch. The difference to the clip you posted is the goalkeeper hadn't touched the ball in that example.

Is Allison allowed to catch that ball that's spinning back towards the goal after Mounts penalty?

If Bednarek (and it would definitely be Bednarek) made the mistake Mings did, he'd be absolutely slaughtered on here for it. It was an awful goal defensively from Villa. Having said that, watching the replay I think a free kick should have been given for the Kung Foo challenge by Jota. Can't overturn a Liverpool goal though....

They haven't finished the rebuild yet. Not sure what they have left to do in those areas.

Maybe The Athletic have heard that we are getting relegated. They don't cover teams in the Championship unless they are massive.

That should have been the formation last night. We didn't need 3 central defenders, and Burnley were just playing through our midfield too easily.

Why snobbery? I have nothing against him at all, in fact I feel bad even mentioning it as it's someone's career. But as a customer, the standard has dropped dramatically since Carl moved on. The articles are largely vague, wishy-washy conjecture. Take today's article about a Chelsea takeover and how it might affect Saints. It's just page-filler, and tells us absolutely nothing.

All the articles I've read have been better than those in the athletic (relating to saints) since Carl moved. Problem is there's plenty of other stuff in the athletic that I read/listen to. Plus I think I'm tied down for another 9 months or so. How much does this cost anyway, after the first month?

Was the penalty actually given for a push or a trip? If it was a push, it was far slighter than the one on Long. If it was a trip, I'm not convinced that Jesus didn't clip the back of his own calf.